deborah raphael, director, and the speaker is dr. chris gieger, integrated pest management program manager. >> pandemic, fires, recessions, these are things that are holding our attention right now in a riveting way, but the city's work goes on, and the commission's work goes on, and every year, the city takes a look at at the use of pes pesticides on those areas. the report that the committee looked at was in 2019 and ended at the end of 2019, but of course everyone on the policy committee was interested in how covid impacted our pesticide use. at this point, you will be hearing from chris a summary -- a very quick summary of what has happened in 2019 because the policy committee heard a very detailed presentation about not only the [inaudible] of 2019 but also what was happening as opposed to covid, what some of the challenges are, what some of resilient requirements were for our land managers. and so with that, i will have chris present his abbreviated version of the presentation he gave at policy committee, and then, we will ask